Alma
How many real pets are named Alma, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Alma as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 56 pets are named Alma: 54 dogs, 2 cats. Where sex was recorded, 98% are female and 2% male. It ranks #1,339 among dog names and #3,765 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Alma
Dogs
- Labrador Retriever: 7
- Havanese: 2
- Shih Tzu: 2
- Chihuahua: 2
- Pit Bull: 2
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Alma
- New York City: 36licensed
- Zurich: 7licensed
- Austin shelter: 6shelter
- Seattle: 4licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 2licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Alma as a human name
This is the meaning of Alma as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A female given name from Latin, popular in the 19th century. Root meaning: “nourishing, kind”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Alma
Dog names about as popular as Alma
Alma FAQ
How many pets are named Alma?
In the public pet records we track, 56 pets are named Alma: 54 dogs, 2 cats. Where sex was recorded, 98% are female and 2% male. It ranks #1,339 among dog names and #3,765 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Alma?
Among dogs named Alma in these records, the most common breed is Labrador Retriever.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Pet Licenses, City of Richmond; Austin Animal Center Outcomes (public domain). License records count registered pets; shelter records count animals that passed through a shelter (some names are given by staff). Pets that appear in several years of one dataset are counted once. Names are counted as written, so spelling variants are separate.